Kinfolk Quotes

All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

Bret Hart is my cousin, I'm told. Didn't know that until I was, I don't know, 28, 25.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

The majority of my family is in Jersey.

A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures.... Only man stands with his children from first to last, from birth to death, and to the grave.

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

A lot of my material was based on my family.